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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:23:17 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][Discussion] Add #[NoSerialize] attribute for
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From: tim@bastelstu.be (=?UTF-8?Q?Tim_D=C3=BCsterhus?=)

Hi

Am 2025-10-31 13:16, schrieb Eric Norris:
> I hope I'm not starting a bikeshed discussion, but I've been following
> along - can I suggest "DoNotSerialize"? "NoSerialize" sounds odd to me,
> whereas "DoNotSerialize" can be seen as both an instruction to PHP - 
> "don't
> serialize this property when serializing the class" - and an 
> instruction to
> developers - "do not attempt to serialize this class".

I don't have a particularly strong opinion on naming, but I'd like to 
note that #[\NoSerialize] is in line with #[\NoDiscard] (added in PHP 
8.5, https://wiki.php.net/rfc/marking_return_value_as_important).

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus